History

St. Joseph’s Press, Trivandrum, started in 1948 and owned by Carmelite Fathers of Malabar Province, is a registered Charitable Trust, working on a non-profitable basis. It is one of the best print-houses in South India, producing books and publications of international standard.
SJP continuously invests in new technologies and equipment and its efficient and dedicated personnel ensure that your product is of innovative design and the highest quality. Our pre-press system comprising Apple Computers, high-resolution scanners, laser printers and automatic plate-processing system matches the best standards in the industry.

We have total pre-press facility: Trendsetter 800 II CTP with compact, semi-automatic, 8-page plate-setter which can image plates ranging from a minimum of 9″x12″ to a maximum of 33″x45″. The printing division of St. Joseph’s Press is well equipped with a multicolour machine, single colour machines, and multicolour web offset machines. In the post-press section, we have a fully mechanised binding section plus facilities for lamination, shrink packing, bundling and a delivery van. Apart from the best equipment and tools, our strength lies in our 114 experienced and dedicated employees whose quality conscious efforts produce the best in printing. The work of our dedicated staff with the help of the best equipment has earned us several awards for excellence in printing at national and state level.

The Press today is a truly complete shop – equipped with some of the best machinery in the printing business and a work force capable of making them perform to perfection.

St. Joseph’s Press creates lasting impressions using the right blend of talent and technology. We are equipped with all modern tools of the trade and a team of dedicated expert craftsmen. The creative department is fully geared to take on a project from conceptualisation to design to the finished printed product, in the quickest possible time. If you can spell it, we can print it. All we need is for the customer to spell our requirement, we do the rest … create the idea, convert it into printable art and produce the final product, and even get it to his destination. There is a continuous effort to upgrade the facilities as well as train the staff to ensure that customers get from us a quality of service comparable to current standards in the world.